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One of my websites with 10's-100's of top 5 rankings for "money" keywords disappeared approx. 1 month before Mother's Day.
Naturally, those keywords generate alot of PPC revenue up to Mother's day.
At around 3pm Mother's Day, my site convienently re-appeared under all those same keywords with normal rankings.
Was this MSN's usual disappearing act for a site or are they trying to send a message about getting "free" listings and forcing webmasters to pay for PPC?
What's your opinion?
Shot in the dark here, was your site ever down? Perhaps when the msn spider came along?
The usual symptoms. All pages indexed. Backlinks counted and yet no where to be seen for any keywords.
Not big money keywords, nor specific 3-4 word phrases.
I would have thought nothing of it, except the timing of the re-appearance considering the keywords the site targets this time of year.
This past week (last Friday to be precise) we fixed a flaw in how we crawl sites. This flaw addressed our inability to crawl sites effectively. It is possible that this affected your site.
It will be interesting to see if this fixes the problem moving forward so please continue to send us feedback (and use stickymail for personal questions).
There are, of course, other reasons pages can drop out. For example, if we deploy an updated Net (http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/06/21/431288.aspx) or if we remove a spam site. In those cases, however, a page that was ranked #2 should not mysteriously drop out of the index entirely and then mysteriously pop back to position #2 a few days later.
Hope this helps.
- msndude (msd)
Customer service! First you, then Adam for G.
Ok, figured I was being paranoid. But still cost me some $$$..
Tsk, Tsk :)
